भारताची संरक्षण सिद्धता (India's Defence Capability And Readiness) (Marathi)
Prabodhan Manch Parle
Prabodhan Manch - an Association of Persons with its primary activity centred around providing a platform for dissemination of views from authentic knowledgeable sources – is nearly 18-month old and this is our 3rd talk in our new avatar. We are still in our infancy but encouraged by your response to our first two lectures, we continue on our path to deal with current topics of interest to our audience and bring out experts in these fields to deliver them.
Speaker's Introduction
An authoritative defence analyst, media trainer and a multi-media reporter who started his career in 1983, Nitinji Gokhale has worked across web, print and broadcast mediums over the last three decades. He has a rare distinction of living and reporting from India’s North-eastern region for 23 years.
In his distinguished journalism career, he has reported the Kargil War, the Eelam War IV in Sri Lanka for three years and different insurgencies from Kashmir, North-east and Maoist-hit areas and has worked with as diverse media houses as The Telegraph, Sunday, Outlook, Tehelka and NDTV.
Over the past decade he has specialised in reporting and analysing India-China relations and has extensively travelled in Tibet, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh and China.
Author of four books on insurgency, war, military and demography, he regularly teaches and lectures at India’s National Defence College, the Army, Navy and Air Force War Colleges, Defence Services Staff College, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, the Intelligence Bureau’s Training School and the College of Defence Management.
The Topic – “India's Defence Capability And Readiness”
A number of factors determine a state’s capacity to create and leverage its hard power for fulfilling its national security objectives. Some of these are money, manpower and material. Striking a balance in these factors is crucial to development of military capabilities and eventually the desired levels of readiness in defending a nation. Historically, India’s defence capabilities have not been what they should or could have been. This was evident in the 1962 India-China war, where the utter lack of “war fighting material”, apart from the foreign policy failures hampered the effectiveness of the military. The military intervention in Sri Lanka in the eighties brought focus on lack of effectiveness of “military manpower” in tackling an ethnic insurgency. Finally, the Kargil intrusions of 1999 underscored unpreparedness of the Indian armed forces – largely due to lack of equipment. Nitinji will provide a deeper analysis of India’s military readiness, the factors affecting it and what should be done to take it a few notches up.
These are difficult topics on which we have asked our speaker to throw light on in a very short time.
In case you have missed the opportunity of listening to our esteem speaker live, here's your link to the YouTube upload:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln_5AT-vzpY
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